Iñaki Bonillas

Iñaki Bonillas (born 1981 in Mexico City) is an artist living and working in Mexico City. His recent work is based on the photographic archive of his grandfather and family.[1] In 2007 he participated in a group exhibition at Claremont Museum of Art.[2]

In Mexico, he is represented by kurimanzutto.[3]

Exhibitions

solo exhibitions

group exhibitions

Works of Art

To create A Card for J.R. Plaza, Iñaki Bonillas pored over photographs, albums, and slides he inherited from his grandfather, J. R. Plaza. Included in the archive was a sheet of business cards, each corresponding to a position Plaza held during his professional life as a salesman. Intermixed among these were eleven cards Plaza designed and typed, representing professions he never held, including borreguero (shepherd) and modelo (model). Inspired by the cards, Bonillas paired several of his grandfather’s self-portraits with the fictitious business cards, playfully exploring Plaza’s interest in self-presentation and constructing a series of new narratives about his own family history. Bonillas also inherited Plaza’s typewriter, which inspired him to create one last business card: “self-portraitist.”[4]

References

  1. Joanna Fiduccia, Inaki Bonillas, Projecte SD, Barcelona, Spain, Frieze, Feb 3, 2008.
  2. claremontmuseum.org
  3. "iñaki bonillas - Artists - Kurimanzutto". www.kurimanzutto.com. Retrieved 2016-11-22.
  4. Coursera, Seeing Through Photographs https://www.coursera.org/learn/photography/slideshow/ic3t1/5-3-slideshow. Retrieved October 21, 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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